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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"wrongful conviction"”.
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Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making
… in efforts to educate the general public about wrongful convictions (Kassin, 2017; Wells et al., 2000). Recently, programs depicting wrongful convictions, such as <em>Making a Murderer </em>(Demos & Ricciardi, 2015) and <em>When They See Us </em>(DuVernay, 2019) have garnered substantial …
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A content and thematic analysis of Reddit discussions about When They See Us
As the number of wrongful conviction media productions increases, an understanding of their impact on viewers is prudent. In this thesis, I investigated the effect of watching When They See Us – a dramatized miniseries depicting the wrongful conviction of five racialized teenagers in 1990 – on the …
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The influence of personal factors on wrongful convictions
… factors that influence the likelihood of wrongful conviction. However, fewer efforts have been made to examine how these factors influence the amount of time between wrongful conviction and exoneration. This is crucial to the expansion of innocence research and the contextualization of …
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Perceptions of false confessions: Reducing prejudice toward exonerees through the use of educational materials
… fact based video) about false confessions and wrongful conviction. Participants who watched the personal story video rated the exoneree as significantly less responsible for his wrongful conviction than participants who did not watch the personal story video. The two different videos interacted …
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Societal perceptions of wrongful convictions
In recent years wrongful convictions have received a considerable amount of research attention. This flourishing interest has resulted in a growing body of literature that aims to investigate this criminal justice phenomenon. Specifically, the current academic literature suggests that exonerees …
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Wrongful Convictions as a Result of Public Defender Representation.
… however, unfortunately mistakes happen. One wrongful conviction is one too many. There are multiple factors that can be assumed to be the cause of wrongful convictions. However, due to the lack of directly related research, the determents are not well established. The following research …
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Sensitizing the general public: experiential processing alters perceptions of confession evidence and minimization
False confessions are a leading cause of wrongful convictions in Canada, suggesting a lack of protection against false confessions. Moreover, minimization tactics can increase the chance of false confessions. Current educational efforts (i.e., cautionary instructions and expert testimony) do not …
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Examing the effects of apology and compensation on participants' perceptions of exonerees.
… apology issued and the factor that lead to their wrongful conviction. Participants` ratings of responsibility and anger indicate negative perceptions of individuals who falsely confess. The implications of issuing apologies are discussed in hopes of decreasing the reintegration difficulties of …
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An applied comparison of eyewitness lineup procedures: New Jersey v. England and Wales' PACE v. New York.
In response to the growing recognition of wrongful conviction and the role that mistaken identification (ID) plays in these miscarriages of justice, some countries, states, and police departments have developed new guidelines for eyewitness ID procedures (Smith & Cutler, 2013a). The guidelines vary …
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#RodneyReed: a content and thematic analysis of a trending innocence campaign
… years (and counting) on death row for a murder conviction which is believed to be wrongful, Rodney Reed’s innocence campaign was shared on social media by celebrities, news organizations, and the public (Barajas, 2021), accruing over 2 million signatures in support (Bates, 2019), and resulting …
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Willingness to help: how the portrayal and perception of a wrongfully convicted individual affects people’s willingness to help exonerees
… discussing an angry or sad aspect of his wrongful conviction and then asked about helping exonerees (assessed with both self-report and behavioural measures). Emotions were manipulated and/or measured a few different ways in each study. Participants’ sadness about the exoneree’s story and …
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An Insight into the Wrongly Convicted: Going beyond the Perceptions and Beliefs of the Causes
<p>This study examined the number of wrongful convictions that were exonerated from January 1, 2004 to September 1, 2012. Four hundred forty seven exoneration cases were examined to obtain the factors that contributed to wrongful convictions, the most common offenses related to wrongful …
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Burying the Ghosts of a Complainant’s Sexual Past: The Constitutional Debates Surrounding Section 227 of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977
… evidence that could be necessary to prevent a wrongful conviction. This paper seeks to consider the constitutional debates surrounding section 227 and to determine whether, to the extent that they may prove to be constitutionally problematic, the potential constitutional challenges are …
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Beyond a reasonable doubt: how South African courts assess eyewitness testimony in murder trials
… sentencing, and mere notions of justice. A wrongful conviction has the consequence of punishing an innocent person, while allowing a guilty person to walk free. Such a conviction negatively impacts the life of the accused, who may suffer while in prison, and experience complex and …
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An Investigation of Factors that Create and Mitigate Confirmation Bias in Judgments of Handwriting Evidence
… as a source of forensic science errors in wrongful conviction cases (e.g., National Academy of Sciences, 2009; Risinger, Saks, Rosenthal, & Thompson, 2002). Accordingly, many have suggested procedural reforms to mitigate the detrimental impact of unconscious bias on judgments of forensic …
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Canadian women and no-crime wrongful convictions: an investigation into whether (and why) women are more frequently wrongfully convicted in no-crime cases against children
Research on no-crime wrongful convictions and female exonerees is scarce, but what research exists suggests that women are wrongfully convicted in no-crime cases against children more often than in wrong-person crime cases. The goal of this dissertation was to begin exploring (1) whether this …
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Individuals’ empathic responses to exonerees’ emotional and physical suffering
In exploring avenues to combat the stigma exonerees experience, a study was conducted to examine whether exposure to an exoneree’s suffering increases empathy and helping, and whether different empathic responses (e.g., emotions) result from the type of suffering witnessed. Participants were …
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Legal Exoneration: A Case Study through the Life History of John Thompson
… to a legal acquittal of a former conviction due to the introduction of new evidence. Since 1989, the number of legal xonerations has increased dramatically due to DNA and other new evidentiary technologies that can demonstrate innocence of formally convicted persons. This research …
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LA RESPONSABILIDAD DEL ESTADO JUEZ EN TORNO AL DERECHO DE LOS CIUDADANOS A LA INDEMNIDAD
Se demuestran las falencias e insuficiencias de los tres títulos tradicionales de imputación de responsabilidad al Estado por las actuaciones judiciales para garantizar el derecho a la indemnidad de los ciudadanos, teniendo en cuenta el rol actual del juez y los postulados teóricos a los cuales …